12e Primetime Emmy Awards

(Outstanding Program Achievement in the Field of Drama)

• Playhouse 90
  • The DuPont Show of the Month
  • The Moon and Sixpence
  • Startime
  • The Untouchables

(Outstanding Program Achievement in the Field of Humor)

• The Art Carney Special
  • Father Knows Best
  • The Jack Benny Program
  • Make Room for Daddy
  • The Red Skelton Show

(Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Series (Lead or Support))

• Robert Stack als Eliot Ness in The Untouchables
  • Richard Boone als Paladin in Have Gun - Will Travel
  • Raymond Burr als Perry Mason in Perry Mason

(Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Series (Lead or Support))

• Jane Wyatt als Margaret Anderson in Father Knows Best
  • Donna Reed als Donna Stone in The Donna Reed Show
  • Loretta Young als Loretta Young in Letter to Loretta

(Outstanding Single Performance by an Actor (Lead or Support))

• Laurence Olivier als Charles Strickland in The Moon and Sixpence
  • Lee J. Cobb als Dr. Lawrence Doner in Playhouse 90
  • Alec Guinness als Jebal Deeks in Startime

(Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress (Lead or Support))

• Ingrid Bergman als Governess in The Turn of the Screw
  • Julie Harris als Mattie Silver in The DuPont Show of the Month